RIGHAM, REEDER S., M. D., of Cairo, Ills., is a native of Bradford county, Pa., where he was born on the
16th of June, 1832. The very moderate means of his father, who was a farmer, would not permit his son's wishes for an early classical education to be
followed out, but by dint of the small advantages held out by the common school, supplemented by hard study in leisure hours, he so far prepared himself
as to pass a satisfactory examination previous to admission into Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa., at the age of nineteen years. For some time after
leaving that seminary he was occupied in teaching school, intending at some future day to devote himself to the study and practice of the law ; but
upon recognizing the fact that law and politics were almost always inseparably connected as regards a country practitioner, and as this latter adjunct
had no charms for him, he changed his plans, and resolved to adopt the profession of medicine. Accordingly, in 1856, he attended a course of lectures in
the Ohio Medical College, an allopathic institution.

During the war of the rebellion Dr. Brigham was enlisted on the side of the Union, and was promoted to
the rank of Acting Assistant Surgeon, serving in the United States Navy for the period of one year.

Having formed the acquaintance of Dr. L, Grosmuck, of Fort Scott, Kansas, he changed his views, and
shortly after entered the Homopathic Medical College of Missouri, whence he obtained his degree of M. D., and since this time he has been successfully
engaged in the practice of his profession, mostly in the neighborhood of Cairo, Ills., to which city he removed in the year 1868.

Dr. Brigham is strictly temperate in all his habits, and has ever been a hard student, earnestly
endeavoring, as far as lay in his power, to extend the great blessing of homopathy to his fellow men. He has occasionally contributed original
articles to the several medical journals, etc., which have attracted considerable attention. Dr. Brigham was married, in 1868, to Mary Goe, of Xenia, O.